Was a period starting in Spring 1961 when the Gothic style roared back into fashion the drab, ugly concrete of brutalism was abandoned with the coming of the 'New Colour Way' which was a movement to use concrete and steel in new ways that echoed the soaring Gothic of the past, with so many decorative elements among the soaring arches, massive picture windows, statues, et all, but above all colour!
On its maiden voyage from Hamburg, Germany to New York City, the S.S. Imperator, a colossal ocean liner, experienced an unforeseen catastrophe that led to its sinking in the early hours of March 9, 1913. The vessel, heralded as a technological marvel of its time, was expected to usher in a new era of luxury and comfort in transatlantic travel. It was the largest passenger ship of its time, measuring approximately 919 feet in length and capable of accommodating over 4,000 passengers and crew members. The vessel boasted state-of-the-art amenities, including luxurious cabins, opulent dining halls, and extensive recreational facilities. Scheduled to compete with the British White Star Line's RMS Titanic, the S.S. Imperator was intended to symbolize German engineering prowess and maritime supremacy. Sadly, it encountered adverse weather conditions, including dense fog and rough seas, in the vicinity of the English Channel. The combination of limited visibility and treacherous waters presented significant challenges to the ship's crew and navigational systems. Despite precautions taken to ensure a safe journey, the vessel struck a submerged object, likely an iceberg or a submerged rock formation, causing severe damage to its hull.
This is supposed to the the AH Historical Event thread, not the AH Quote thread. But I’ll try to make it fit anyway:
The story of how the prince with a thousand enemies used a hrududu to ensure that the English would be a Lapine reserve inspiring the horror story by Richard Adam Manchester Down: How to avoid Elil hrair- rah
Is the name of a 1975 history book on the French angle 1560-1573 Angevin crisis, in which the Angevin Union collapsed violently after the last Plantagenets died out. At the time, most books on the crisis focused on the English angle, in which after celebrating release from their Vassalage, immediately collapsed into civil war over who would rule, resulting in a Military Dictatorship under the Lord Protector, or the angle in The realm's colonies in Atlantis (Who would later declare themselves English). How the west was won focuses on the French angle, which resulted in a Habsburg prince declaring themself the Neo-Etichonid dynasty, after a brief warlord era. The Book also inspired the IP "Warlords of Francia", the most successful and oldest strategy video game series of all time, with "Playing Normandy" becoming slang for playing a game on hard victory, referencing the state's stature as the weakest playable warlords in the first few games.
Emperor Hisahito, having obtained a degree engineering volunteered to work on the Japanese lunar base program, which successfully made Japan the second country, after America to land a lunar base. A lunar base being a permanent structure astronauts could inhabit on missions.
After the assassination of FW deKlerk in 1990 and his replacement by a junta of Afrikaners bent on expansion by force, the puppet Prime Minister Janusz Walus officially took responsibility for the 1992 invasion of Namibia, the 1995 overrun of Botswana, and the 1999 takeover of Mozambique. The assault and occupation of Zimbabwe in 2001 resulted in brutal massacred there and in eastern South Africa proper while riots and civil conflicts resulted in lethal police actions throughout the country. South Africa's nuclear stockpile increased with international fears heightened after their detonation of a hydrogen bomb in 1997 and launch of the R5 ICBM in 1998. Their use of nuclear weapons against rebels in Angola during the late summer of 2003 proved too much for the West to stomach and a multinational US-led coalition invaded in 2004. Ultimate independence was restored to all occupied/annexed nations and Apartheid died off.
The Renovationist Movement successfully usurps power from Patriarch Tikhon of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 1920s; with the Church controlled by Soviet loyalists the anti-religious campaigns of the U.S.S.R. (and it’s international flag-bearers) are stillborn. During the Japanese occupation of Korea one of the native freedom-fighters — a self-proclaimed Christian prophet named Sun Myung Moon — joins forces with the communist guerrillas and adopts a Christian Communist ideology. After Japan surrenders and Korea is divided into American & Soviet zones, Sun Myung Moon defeats Kim Il Sung and other contenders vying for power north of the 38th Parallel to become Supreme Leader. Thus the Christian Korean People’s Republic is born.
An agreement between the Ottoman, British, French, Russian, German and Chinese Empires, regarding the colonization and exploration of space beyond Earth orbit. This was seen as a major moment for the peaceful development of space, but was overshadowed by the Caucasian War. The agreement was spurred on by the brutal fighting on the orbital front of World War Five (2033-2034).
In 2003, Eduard was coronated as the leader of the principality of Livonia, he would later marry the crown Princess of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, Amajuia, leading to 'The Empire Between Seas'
In Operation: Final Cut, Prime Minister Uruquhart decided to convince Queen Elizabeth to announce a diplomatic mission with Prince Charles being sent to Iran and Afghanistan to build faith and achieve a reproach with the West, crwating accusations that he sought to play the king amidst a political house of cards. A last-minute change due to the opportunity to theoretically kill a member of British royalty resulted in both the supposed plot being foiled and a plot to attack the United States in late summer of 2001 being uncovered. It is said this event may have prevented the far worse events of 2011 resulting from a much more organized effort involving a group initially known only as The Engineers.
The Illinois Tower in New York City was the crowning jewel of the Millennium 2000 megastructure projects across British North America. Along with the new Royal Park complex in Detroit, it was the centerpiece of the Royal Tour 2000. Impressive as it was, the monumental tower was tragically abandoned during the 2046 evacuation of NYC due to rising sea levels. The tower's collapse was filmed 2 years later, after constant heavy water flow eroded the base irreparably.
In 1954, after the weight of barely winning the Second World war against the Communard French and Ultranationalist Russia, The Kaiserreich fell into a brutal Civil war. Despite aid from both the Russian Republic and the United Kingdom, the Kaiser was forced to flee to France, and the Kaiserfront collapsed, resulting in the UK of Great Britain instead siding with the Republicans, who would soon defeat both the Neo-Communards, a strange Pagan-Obsessed Ultranationalist front in Bavaria lead by an elderly WW1 veteran and former Painter named Adolf Hitler and a WW2 General named Himmler, the republicans would soon proclaim the German Republic in Frankfurt on January 21st, 1956. The German Republic would soon become a vital ally to to the United Kingdom in the cold war against the United Syndicalist States of America. Reportably the German band NENA performed on the St. John's wall as it was torn down, thus winning Britain the First cold war, only for the second cold war to begin with Russia a few decades later, following the Canary Wharf attacks.
The Lusatian-Polish-German War, 1901-1923
